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From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim. Coming up on Forum, we're in year three of what's shaping up to be the worst drought in state history.

The first four months of 2022 were the driest on record, partly because of a monumentally dismal snowpack.

But California's cities and towns are not doing a great job conserving water,

and in some places we're using more water than we did a year ago.

This hour, we look at why and hear what's working in another place, Las Vegas, which was forced to come to grips two decades ago with a future of less water.

Join us. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim.

California is in the grip of extreme drought, and we're heading into a hot-dry summer with low reservoir storage.

But we sure aren't acting like it.

Not only are we missing our water

conservation targets, we're using more water. A new report this week from the state

water Resources Control Board finds L.A. and coastal parts of Southern California used 26% more

water in April than it did a year ago. And urban areas in the state as a whole used 17% more water.

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